Enhanced cued recall has a high utility as a screening test in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in Turkish people.

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Saka E., Mihci E., Topcuoglu M. A., Balkan S.

Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, cilt.21, sa.7, ss.745-51, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 21 Sayı: 7
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.acn.2006.08.007
  • Dergi Adı: Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.745-51
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Alzheimer's disease, dementia, enhanced cued recall, memory, mild cognitive impairment, screening test, INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, MEDICAL LITERATURE, VASCULAR DEMENTIA, USERS GUIDES, OLDER-PEOPLE, CONSENSUS, CRITERIA, ARTICLE
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Enhanced cued recall (ECR) is highly sensitive and specific in discrimination of demented from non-demented elderly persons. The nature of the test promises that it can be applicable to subjects in different cultures and education level. We studied the utility of the test in a Turkish population. Eighty consecutive cases with dementia or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 33 elderly controls were studied. The utility of ECR was high in discriminating dementia from controls (area under curve (AUC)) of the ROC curve: 0.907 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.830-0.953 for total recall), Alzheimer's disease from controls (AUC: 0.990 (95% CI: 0.934-0.998 for total recall)) and moderate (AUC: 0.625 (95% CI: 0.545-0.812 for third free recall)) in discriminating MCI from controls. Education did not affect the utility of the test. We conclude that ECR is a valuable test in assessment of elderly Turkish patients with a complaint of memory impairment. (c) 2006 National Academy of Neuropsychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.